Afleveringen
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Israel attacked Iran's embassy in Syria on April 1, in a blatant act of war. Iran had a legal right to respond in self-defense, according to article 51 of the UN Charter, which is exactly what it did by launching missiles and drone strikes on April 13. But Western governments are absurdly portraying Tehran as the aggressor. Ben Norton explains.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1p1-Psc0Un8
Topics
0:00 Intro
1:11 Israel attacked Iran first
2:50 Biden & Sunak erase history
3:57 US, UK, France blocked UN Security Council condemnation
5:14 Iran invoked article 51 of UN charter
7:02 UN chief Antonio Guterres' hypocrisy
8:32 West is destroying international law
10:46 World War III?
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Washington accuses China of producing too many goods and demands "free market" policies. But the US government is spending trillions on industrial policy to protect its own manufacturing sector. Ben Norton details the hypocrisy of the allegations, the latest strategy in the US economic war on China.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GUpWxNcdnYU
Topics
0:00 Intro
1:00 Chinese 'overcapacity' allegations
3:38 Janet Yellen
5:21 US vows to 'slow down China's rate of innovation'
8:02 Elon Musk begs for tariffs on Chinese EVs
10:40 US wants China to be economically subordinated
12:27 US tech war on China
14:39 Western industrial policy
16:31 Protectionism
18:38 US Inflation Reduction Act
20:12 US Chips Act
22:03 US undercapacity is the real problem
25:11 BYD has just 1.5% of EU EV market share
27:04 China's car exports vs Japan & South Korea
30:37 Is overcapacity a problem?
32:39 Outro -
Zijn er afleveringen die ontbreken?
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Political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson analyze how the United States is waging an economic war against China.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4l3EbRUOGsI
Transcript: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/04/09/us-waging-economic-war-china-radhika-desai-michael-hudson/
You can watch other episodes of their program Geopolitical Economy Hour here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP -
In the United Nations Human Rights Council, the West voted against the rest of the world, supporting illegal sanctions (known as unilateral coercive measures). Ben Norton analyzes how the 14% of the population in the Global North constantly opposes the Global South, representing the Global Majority.
VIDEO with maps and graphics here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=VHBIfmxkHh4
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Argentina's libertarian President Javier Milei ordered his intelligence agency to give full power to the CIA, while the US spy agency's director is welcomed to Buenos Aires. Ben Norton discusses how self-declared "anarcho-capitalist" Milei withdrew from BRICS, allied with Israel, and is implementing neoliberal shock therapy, selling off the South American nation in mass privatizations, as most workers live in poverty.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4VBlUW4BpYs
Check out our related video "How extremist Javier Milei became Argentina's president: A story of debt, crisis, and empire": https://youtube.com/watch?v=FN6hoIb-QqA
Topics
0:00 Foreign meddling in Argentina
1:08 Javier Milei
1:41 CIA
3:24 Billionaire oligarch
4:03 Anarcho-capitalism
5:05 IMF
7:17 Inflation
8:25 Poverty
9:43 Israel
11:00 Milei's geopolitical alignment: US & Israel
11:33 BRICS
12:13 US corporations
13:32 Beat the status quo... by joining it
14:24 US-backed coup & dictatorship
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The US government has sent troops to Taiwan, just a few kilometers from mainland China, while also selling billions of dollars of weapons and military equipment. Is Washington preparing for war? Ben Norton analyzes the geopolitical situation.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sWWABuHjSvU
After Ukraine, US readies ‘transnational kill chain’ for Taiwan proxy war: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/03/01/ukraine-us-kill-chain-taiwan-war
Topics
0:00 Intro
2:15 US sends troops to Taiwan
4:39 US general threatens war on China
5:28 Nuclear weapons
7:03 US once had nukes in Taiwan
10:22 US "arms Taiwan to the teeth"
13:27 US military surrounds China
16:22 Pentagon's "kill chain for the Pacific"
18:23 Elon Musk's role
19:19 US military interoperability with Taiwan
20:57 Washington threatens Chinese sovereignty
22:58 US communiqués recognizing One China policy
27:46 US violates agreements
29:28 Parallels to Ukraine
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Israel is carrying out genocide against the Palestinian people and "systematic destruction of every aspect necessary to sustain life in Gaza", United Nations Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese detailed in her report titled "Anatomy of a Genocide". Ben Norton analyzes the political context.
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The world economy is structured in an unjust way in which the West drains the wealth of the Global South. Ben Norton discusses the economics of imperialism, and how China has tried to reverse it.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PlAN5-Lk0hw
China is ‘world’s sole manufacturing superpower’, with 35% of global output: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/01/31/china-world-manufacturing-superpower-production
Topics
0:00 Global inequality
3:01 World-systems analysis
4:37 Prebisch-Singer thesis
6:55 Dependency theory & commodity supercycles
8:27 Unequal exchange
11:01 Haiti & Honduras: Wage suppression in the periphery
13:57 New International Economic Order
15:22 China & the Asian Tigers
19:27 The Global South rebels
22:41 South Africa's President Ramaphosa on industrialization
25:13 Indonesia's economic development
26:34 (Neo)colonialism in Indonesia
29:29 Indonesia bans raw mineral exports
32:18 Protectionism (for the West, not for the rest)
37:38 China helps Indonesia industrialize
42:04 The myth of Chinese "imperialism"
43:04 India's economy vs. Indonesia's
46:41 China's South-South integration
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Political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are joined by Beijing-based scholar Mick Dunford to discuss China's economy and debunk Western media myths, addressing accusations that consumption is too low, fears of "Japanification", the role of exports, and the new Chinese growth strategy.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=isJR5dS27qA
This is part 2 of their discussion. Watch part 1 here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3K1Vku1SDd8
You can watch other episodes of their program Geopolitical Economy Hour here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP -
The US government's plan to either ban TikTok or force owner ByteDance to sell it to a (US) company is part of Washington's economic war on China, and an attempt to protect Big Tech monopolies in Silicon Valley. Ben Norton explains.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=1I7reuh86CM
Sources and links here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/03/18/us-tiktok-ban-china-tech-monopolies/
Topics
0:00 US Congress moves to ban TikTok
2:04 US tech war on China
6:12 India bans Chinese apps, giving US Big Tech total control
7:51 Protectionism or economic war?
9:18 Silicon Valley lobbied against TikTok
10:49 Donald Trump tried to ban TikTok... before doing 180
13:27 Role of Israel/Palestine/Gaza?
14:54 US trade war with Japan in 1980s
16:51 "Free market" fundamentalist hypocrisy
18:45 The Washington Consensus
20:24 US does not truly want "competition" with China
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Several reports in mainstream US media outlets show how the CIA has helped to direct the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, and played a role in causing the conflict in the first place. Ben Norton examines the evidence.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=C-PdT8ZUamQ
US govt knew NATO expansion to Ukraine would force Russia to intervene: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/02/27/us-nato-expansion-ukraine-russia-intervene/
Topics
0:00 CIA's role in Ukraine proxy war
2:52 Germany reveals UK/France have troops in Ukraine
4:08 Western special ops commandos are in Ukraine
6:09 CIA trained Ukrainian forces before war with Russia
9:22 US knew NATO expansion would cause Russian intervention
12:26 NY Times reveals CIA operations in Ukraine
21:26 CIA was using US embassy in Ukraine
22:23 2014 US-backed Maidan coup
25:45 CIA spying inside Russia
27:59 NATO/EU member Estonia rewrites WWII history
30:04 Assassinations by CIA-trained Ukrainian forces
34:27 CIA collaborated with UK's MI6 and Netherlands
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Political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are joined by Beijing-based scholar Mick Dunford to discuss what is actually happening in China, explaining its economic transition and move toward a new industrial revolution.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3K1Vku1SDd8
You can watch other episodes of their program Geopolitical Economy Hour here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDAi0NdlN8hMl9DkPLikDDGccibhYHnDP -
The US government has sent Israel more than 100 arms shipments since October 7, to help it bomb Gaza. Polls show 52% of North Americans oppose these weapons sales. Biden is defying the Democratic Party's base, while allying with Trump and the Republicans. Ben Norton reviews the evidence.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yoj8Sleb9XQ
US kills 4th UN call for peace in Gaza, helping Israel violate Hague's genocide ruling: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/02/21/us-veto-un-resolution-gaza-israel-hague-genocide/
Topics
0:00 Most Americans oppose US arms sales to Israel
2:57 Youth & Democrats say Israel commits genocide
5:10 ICJ: genocide case against Israel is "plausible"
5:30 Top UN expert: Israel commits genocide in Gaza
6:03 US court: Israel "plausibly" committing genocide
7:00 Biden admin sends Israel 100+ arms shipments
9:17 US vetoes ceasefire resolutions in UN Security Council
9:50 Israel's war on Gaza is most destructive in modern history
10:50 Biden's cynical "food aid" PR stunt
11:19 Israel is starving Palestinian children to death
12:01 Amnesty: Israel violates Hague's Gaza ruling
12:46 UN warns Gaza kids are dying of hunger
13:50 China condemns Israel's "disgrace for civilization"
14:23 Malaysia's PM blasts West's "murderous" hypocrisy
16:21 Western colonialism continues
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Why is the United States waging economic war on China? Ben Norton discusses how China became the world's industrial superpower and a leader in important technologies, why the US is unable to compete, and the clash between Western neoliberal capitalism and Chinese socialism.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=c3ngd__0ok0
China is now the 'world's sole manufacturing superpower': https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/01/31/china-world-manufacturing-superpower-production/
Topics
0:00 Bipartisan US economic war
2:19 China is world's #1 manufacturer
4:28 Clash of systems
6:29 Elon Musk laughed at Chinese competitors. Now they're beating him.
9:27 TikTok: Why US wants to ban it
10:56 EU threatens tariffs on China
11:20 West's hypocrisy on climate change
12:25 Solar panels: China installs more than rest of world combined
13:46 Clean energy is top driver of China's growth
14:56 China leads world in green transition
16:57 Neoliberal West can't outcompete China's state-led industrial development
18:27 The death of "free market" dogma
20:31 The myth of "free trade"
23:23 US opposes industrial policy when China does it
29:10 "Washington Consensus" failed, Washington admits
38:01 Ronald Reagan's trade war on Japan
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The European Unionâs top diplomat, Josep Borrell, admitted that the âera of Western dominance has indeed definitively endedâ. He warned that the EU must not divide the world into âthe West against the Restâ, as âmany in the âGlobal Southâ accuse us of âdouble standardsââ. Ben Norton analyzes the historic shift.VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=PVSQRypJXzYSources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/02/26/western-dominance-ended-eu-josep-borrell/Related videos:- EU confesses 'our prosperity was based on China & Russia': cheap energy, low-paid labor, big market: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/10/18/eu-prosperity-china-russia-energy-market/- West votes against democracy, human rights, cultural equality at UN; promotes mercenaries, sanctions: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/11/26/west-vote-democracy-human-rights-un-sanctions/Topics0:00 "Western dominance has ended"2:41 Europe's "prosperity was based on China and Russia"4:05 West vs. the Rest5:07 Ukraine and NATO7:05 Europe becoming US "vassal"8:06 West votes against rest of world at UN12:44 US-led imperialist system18:58 Terms "Global South" and "West"24:54 Outro
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Political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss the rhetoric and reality of Bidenomics, and how good US President Joe Biden really was for the economy.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xwht64COz2Q
Transcript: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/02/28/bidenomics-economy-radhika-desai-michael-hudson/
You can find other episodes of their program Geopolitical Economy Hour here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/tag/geopolitical-economy-hour/ -
The Western media showed its extreme bias by whitewashing the fatal protest of US airman Aaron Bushnell, who set himself on fire outside Israel's embassy in Washington, DC while shouting "Free Palestine!" and "I will no longer be complicit in genocide!". Ben Norton contrasts the press' coverage of Russia, showing clear double standards.
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Many Latin American countries have accused Israel of genocide against the Palestinian people, even comparing it to Nazi Germany. Ben Norton explains the responses of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and Venezuela.
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=63Zj691F8Iw
Topics
0:00 Intro
0:54 Latin American countries that support Palestine
1:47 ICJ or ICC? Differences
2:41 ICJ says Israel can be investigated for genocide
3:32 Israel's war on Gaza is most destructive in modern history
4:20 Brazil's President Lula compares Israel to Nazi Germany
6:01 Israeli media compares Netanyahu's government to Nazis
8:18 Colombia's President Gustavo Petro accuses Israel of genocide
9:43 Bolivia's ex-President Evo Morales accuses Israel of genocide
10:22 US imperialism in Latin America and West Asia
12:08 Venezuela compares Israel to Nazi Germany
13:07 Nicaragua's President Ortega blasts West's "horrendous crimes"
13:56 Nicaragua joins South Africa's ICJ case
16:04 Cuba accuses Israel of genocide
16:39 Bolivia breaks diplomatic ties with Israel
16:58 Belize breaks diplomatic ties with Israel
17:08 Honduras recalls its ambassador in Israel
17:19 Latin America's right-wing governments support Israel
18:41 El Salvador's Nayib Bukele supports Israel
19:23 Argentina's Javier Milei supports Israel
20:21 Latin American left vs right
21:13 Latin America's anti-imperialist leadership
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The United States used its veto power to block a fourth UN Security Council resolution that called for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. The Biden administration keeps sending weapons to Israel, helping it violate an International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling that says Netanyahu must respect the Genocide Convention and stop killing Palestinians. Ben Norton explains.
Sources and more information here: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/02/21/us-veto-un-resolution-gaza-israel-hague-genocide
VIDEO: https://youtube.com/watch?v=zDcN9LsntHI
Our related video - Israel admits Gaza health ministry death toll is accurate: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Dbj1GNT3Mjk
Topics
0:00 US votes against 4th UNSC Gaza resolution
4:13 Israel violates ICJ genocide ruling
6:15 UN says 100,000 Palestinians killed, wounded, or missing
7:34 Gaza health ministry death toll
8:23 Israel's war on Gaza is most destructive in modern history
9:57 US sends more weapons to Israel
11:35 Biden admin's hypocrisy
13:05 EU foreign policy chief criticizes Israel's "slaughter"
15:26 Canada's military support for Israel
17:05 Image of US voting against the world
17:40 Russia condemns Israel's ethnic cleansing
19:10 France says Israel must end war
19:47 China urges peace and "justice" in Palestine
20:39 US doctor describes "annihilation" in Gaza
22:16 ICJ cases against Israel
23:35 US threatens South Africa
24:20 New York governor uses genocidal rhetoric
25:11 Top UN official warns of "slaughter" in Gaza
26:41 Israel bombs Lebanon too
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NATO's new cold war on Russia and China is destroying Germany's industrial base, devastating Europe's economy, and destabilizing its politics, fueling the rise of the far-right, as neoliberal austerity policies exacerbate the ongoing recession. Ben Norton analyzes the evidence.
Links:
- EU confesses ‘our prosperity was based on China & Russia’: cheap energy, low-paid labor, big market: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/10/18/eu-prosperity-china-russia-energy-market
- German lawmaker denounces Ukraine 'proxy war' and US 'terror attack' on Nord Stream pipelines: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/22/germany-ukraine-nord-stream-sevim-dagdelen
- How corporate profits are driving inflation, not workers' wages: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/06/26/corporate-profits-inflation-europe-imf
Topics
0:00 Crisis in EU's economic heart: Germany
5:04 EU admits "our prosperity was based on China and Russia"
6:51 German industry
8:09 US-NATO "vassalization" of Europe
10:09 Cheap Russian gas or expensive US LNG?
13:37 Corporations and speculators profit
17:08 Greedflation
19:08 Neoliberal austerity is back
21:24 US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)
23:52 Economic war on China backfires
27:01 Rise of far-right
29:46 Germany's leftist anti-war alternative
33:01 Environmentalist policies are not the problem
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